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| Mainland China in Kolkata celebrates Chi... | Mainland China in Kolkata celebrated Chinese New Year of the Goat/Sheep with a colourful Dragon Dance on Tuesday (February 17, 2015) at their flagship restaurant at Gurusaday Road. The fortnight long festival incorporates several wholesome elements symbolic of health and prosperity. The festival offers tastefully prepared dishes to look forward to including Crisp Fried Garlic Mushrooms, Steamed Cottage Cheese Dumplings with Celery, Sliced Chicken with Kaffir Lime, Hunan Style Pickled Ginger Noodles, which promises to be a delectable experience. Images by Avishek Mitra/IBNS | 19-Feb-2015 |
| Kolkata treated to Sufi Sutra | Sufi Sutra is an annual three day peace music festival held in Kolkata that brings about convergence of ideas on truth, harmony, peace and divinity. The cultural dialogues have developed mutual knowledge on world Sufi and traditional music and created scopes for performances to the visiting countries augmenting livelihood for the rural artists from India. Presented by Banglanatak dot com from Feb 6 to 8 at Mohar Kunj in Kolkata, it was participated by groups like Projeto Sarava from Brazil, Seranas from Denmark, Mawlawiyah from Egypt, Hadarrattes Souiriyattes from Morocco,Sidi Goma from Gujarat, the Langas from Rajasthan, besides Folks of Bengal from West Bengal. Images by Avishek Mitra/IBNS | 12-Feb-2015 |
| Darjeeling: Eat, pray and love the mount... | For every Bengali, the romance, nostalgia and a certain pride around Darjeeling is not just about the famous Rajesh Khanna-Sharmila Tagore song of Aradhana. While for generations of Indians, the song Mere Sapnon Ki Rani from the 1969 film, where Rajesh Khanna in a jeep serenaded the coy Sharmila Tagore on the iconic toy train, is a trigger to visit the Queen of Hills, Bengalis often bask in the glory of a critically acclaimed 1962 Satyajit Ray film called Kangchenjunga shot almost entirely in Darjeeling and its Mall area where myriad Bengali characters, including members of an aristocratic family, unfold in all their layers and inner turmoil in a drama heightened by the nature. Images: Sujoy Dhar | 10-Feb-2015 |
| Darjeeling: Eat, pray and love the mount... | For every Bengali, the romance, nostalgia and a certain pride around Darjeeling is not just about the famous Rajesh Khanna-Sharmila Tagore song of Aradhana. While for generations of Indians, the song Mere Sapnon Ki Rani from the 1969 film, where Rajesh Khanna in a jeep serenaded the coy Sharmila Tagore on the iconic toy train, is a trigger to visit the Queen of Hills, Bengalis often bask in the glory of a critically acclaimed 1962 Satyajit Ray film called Kangchenjunga shot almost entirely in Darjeeling and its Mall area where myriad Bengali characters, including members of an aristocratic family, unfold in all their layers and inner turmoil in a drama heightened by the nature. | 10-Feb-2015 |